Couple dies in apparent murder-suicide in Porter Ranch

PORTER RANCH — Police Tuesday were investigating a suspected murder-suicide that left a 58-year-old man and his 55-year-old wife dead in Porter Ranch.

Officers from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Devonshire station responded at 9:21 p.m. Monday to the 20700 block of Como Lane, where a neighbor reported victims with gunshot wounds, an LAPD spokesman told City News Service.

Both the man and woman were pronounced dead at the scene by Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics. Their names were not immediately available.

Police said they found a gun at the scene and the case is being investigated as a murder-suicide.

ABC7 reported the bodies were found by the couple’s son.